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Monday, October 24, 2005

HITTING THE SHELVES

HITTING THE SHELVESMargaret Atwood’s The Tent (2006)

WATCH OUT for Margaret Atwood’s new collection of stories, The Tent (2006), due out from Nan A. Talese on January 10, 2006.

BibliographyATWOOD Margaret [1939-] Novelist, poet, critic. Born Margaret Eleanor Atwood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. NOVELSOryx and Crake (2003: shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize for Fiction, the 2003 Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the 2003 Giller Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction); The Blind Assassin (2000: winner of the 2000 Booker Prize for Fiction and the Dashiell Hammett Prize); Alias Grace (1996: winner of the 1996 Giller Prize for Fiction, the Premio Mondello Award and an Award of Merit from Heritage Toronto; shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the 1998 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel); The Robber Bride (1993: co-winner of the 1993 Trillium Book Award for Fiction); Cat’s Eye (1988: shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize for Fiction); The Handmaid’s Tale (1985: winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award; a finalist for the 1986 Booker Prize for Fiction, the Ritz Paris Hemingway Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize); Bodily Harm (1981); Life Before Man (1979); Lady Oracle (1976); Surfacing (1972); The Edible Woman (1969) STORIESThe Tent (2006); Bottle (2004); Good Bones and Simple Murders (2001); A Quiet Game and Other Early Works (edited by Kathy Chung and Sherrill Grace; illustrated by Kathy Chung (1997); Good Bones (1992); Wilderness Tips and Other Stories (1991: winner of the 1991 Trillium Book Award for Fiction); Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories (1983); Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems (1983); Dancing Girls and Other Stories (1977) POETRYEating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965-1995 (1998); Morning in the Burned House (1995: co-winner of the 1995 Trillium Book Award for Fiction); Margaret Atwood Poems 1965-1975 (1991); Selected Poems 1966-1984 (1990); Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New 1976-1986 (1986); Interlunar (1984); Snake Poems (1983); True Stories (1981); Two-Headed Poems (1978); Selected Poems (1976); You Are Happy (1974); Power Politics (1971); Procedures for Underground (1970); The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970); The Animals in That Country (1968); Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966); Expeditions (1966); Talismans for Children (1965); Kaleidoscopes (1965); The Circle Game (1964; rev. 1966: winner of the 1966 Governor General’s Award for Poetry); Double Persephone (1961) CHILDREN’SBashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2004); Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003); Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995); For the Birds (1990); Anna’s Pet (with Joyce Barkhouse) (1980); Up in the Tree (1978) NONFICTIONThe Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (2005); Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing (published as Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005 in the U.S.) (2005); Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002); Solicitudes: Conversations (with Victor-Levy Beaulieu) (1998); Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995); Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (1982); Days of the Rebels 1815-1840 (1977); Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972) EDITEDThe New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (with Robert Weaver) (1995); The Best American Short Stories 1989 (with Shannon Ravenell) (1989); The Canlit Foodbook (1987); The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (1982); The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (with Robert Weaver) (1986)

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I am a senior book and magazine editor who lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I love books and the freedom to read whatever makes me happy: both fiction and nonfiction. I have always been obsessed with the relationship between literature and life and its role in society. As an editor, I have edited many books, but never get tired of the grand adventure of reading. We must never underestimate the redeeming power of fiction in our lives. The idea that there is something out there that is far, far bigger than our lives sustains some of our lives. I am the co-editor of URBAN ODYSSEYS: KL STORIES.